Energy demand across the nation is skyrocketing. The demand generated from crypto-mining and data center development exacerbates already strained grids all over the US. Texas, like other states in the country, is experiencing the same staggering load growth...
Texas is facing a convergence of challenges that can no longer be addressed in isolation. Rapid load growth, rising housing costs, and an increasingly strained grid are colliding with a quieter but deeply significant issue: millions of Texans are living in homes that...
Happy Earth Day 2026! This year SPEER is celebrating by marking our 15 year anniversary as an organization. The South-Central Partnership for Energy Efficiency as a Resource, or SPEER, was formed in 2011 as a public purpose, mission driven, membership based, and...
2030 seems like a long time from now, but it’s only 48 short months away. And, in the grand scheme of the International Code Council (ICC), 2030 is just around the corner as they prepare to take comments and publish the 2030 set of code standards. For those “code...
It would be easy to say that the Texas grid once again dodged a bullet with the recent winter storm, BUT, the truth is, many positive changes have been implemented within our great state to make sure that another Winter Storm Uri doesn’t occur again. SPEER applauds...
By SPEER Intern, Vaishnavi Kharade Heat as a Public Health Crisis Texas summers have always been hot, but recent years have shown us something different: record-breaking heatwaves that last for weeks. In 2023, triple-digit temperatures and dangerous heat indices...
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